On the most family-friendly weekend, theaters offer us low-explosive, high-sugar entertainment, brimming with tinsel and colored lights (and not the ones in the bars of Sabina’s songs).
Bearing in mind that we’re on Christmas Eve, I think we can afford to start with a smaller but fun film, something for all audiences that can save your Sunday afternoon digestive health. This is ‘Puss in Boots: The Last Wish’, the second part of the successful animated film from nine years ago.
Here we return to the feline character of the ‘Shrek’ saga, whose voice and accent are provided by Antonio Banderas, an adventurous cat, somewhere between Scaramouche and Casanova, who discovers in this new film the harsh reality that he only has one life. has. left. Don’t worry, there is no reflection on the futility of existence. We will have the irreverence that is a brand that sets it apart from the soft Disney productions, a few laughs and pure joy. We receive it with more happiness than a child the chocolate nougat and a grandmother the bottle of cava.
A biopic of a great singer from the turn of the last century serves to attract the movie theaters where we spent our childhood listening to her and the young people who have heard some of her songs but have no idea who she is. The formula can work, especially when it comes to Whitney Houston, one of the best voices in American music, who rose to movie heaven with ‘The Bodyguard’ (1993). That’s all “Whitney Houston: I want to dance with someone.”
The best thing about the movie, of course, is the soundtrack, and while it tries to follow the rules of ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ (2018), it fails. The actors’ composition work is discreet, as is the production, despite the best efforts of Naomi Ackie, who plays Houston. The ill-fated star’s lights and shadows are made with thick, stuttering strokes, so the work isn’t quite as rounded as the song that gives the film its title.
Also next week the premieres will be brought forward to Wednesday, and I’m going to bring one forward. It’s one of those movies that tell an impressive investigative journalism that Hollywood loves (because it shows the system works). The New York Times exposed years of abuse by film producer Harvey Weinstein, apparently with the knowledge of all of Hollywood.
This investigation, carried out by two journalists, is reported in ‘Al descubierto’. The movie picks up where ‘The Pentagon Archives’ (2018) already was, but it doesn’t even come close to being that round. Powerful depiction of the genesis of ‘#MeToo’, with valued director Maria Schrader making her first foray into the ‘mainstream’. It’s not a very long story, but it’s detailed, so it’s not a movie to watch while we’re doing other things or you hear ‘what happened?’, ‘who is that?’ all the time. and similar questions that burst at us. The journalists won the Pulitzer, here’s enough that they’ll leave something in their sock on Christmas Eve.
Off camera are the bad Christmas movies. You already know that one of my guilty pleasures is to spend two months in the dark side of the platforms and take in countless cloned television movies about these supposedly endearing days. Still (excluding the well-known classics) there is something moderate to salvage among so much mediocrity. The 1947 film of ‘Illusion is also lived’ on Disney+; ‘The boy who saved Christmas’, ‘Single until Christmas’ and ‘Operation Merry Christmas’ on Netflix; ‘Christmas in 8 bits’ on Amazon; and the most faithful version I’ve seen of ‘A Christmas Carol’ from 1951, which you can discover on Filmin. They are a good gift from Sinterklaas.
May you have a Christmas, and a week of cinema.
Source: La Verdad
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